Civil War
Composite family photograph display featuring Generals Burnside and McClellan.
Composite family photograph display featuring Generals Burnside and McClellan.
Sale 2112 - Visions of America: The Stephen White Collection
Oct 24, 2024
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
Estimate
$500 -
700
Lot Description
Civil War
Composite family photograph display featuring Generals Burnside and McClellan.
Composite family photograph display featuring Generals Burnside and McClellan.
12 x 10 in. paper mount featuring a collage with circular and oval portraits ranging in size from 3/4 in. diam. to 1 5/8 in. diam. Hand-colored designs embellished with ink connect the rounded portraits of men, women, and children, almost certainly members of the same family. Portraits of Union Generals Ambrose E. Burnside and George McClellan are featured on each side of the collage. Both men played prominent roles in the Civil War, with each serving as commander of the Army of the Potomac between 1861 and 1862.
This lot is located in Cincinnati.
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